Google – Search from pages from Ireland button?

Google – Search from pages from Ireland button?

We have had a number of people mention to us that they wish to register a .ie domain name as they want to be found in Google under the “pages from Ireland” button. They think that that is the difference between and .com and a .ie domain names.

This is not the case. It is believed that in fact it displays pages that are actually physically in Ireland. Many companies opt for cheap hosting in the USA for example and this is believed to then not show their website as Google knows their IP address (the hosting server) is in Texas and so will not show up their website for a particular searches “pages from Ireland”